collide

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to crash together with violent impact

   The cars collided

2. 2
   verb

   to cause to collide

   The physicists collided the particles

3. 3
   verb

   To impact directly, especially if violent.

   When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.

4. 4
   verb

   To come into conflict, or be incompatible.

   China collided with the modern world.

5. 5
   verb

   To meet; to come into contact.

   Out of the doubts that fill my mind / I somehow find, you and I collide

6. 6
   verb

   to be incompatible

7. 7
   verb

   To cause to collide.

Etymology

From Latin collidere (“to strike or clash together”), from com- (“together”) + laedere (“to strike, dash against, hurt”); see lesion.